VLUIS 2016: Victorian Land Tenure, Use, and Cover at Cadastral Parcel Level

A geospatial dataset describes land tenure, land use, and land cover for the entire state of Victoria, Australia, at the cadastral parcel level for the year 2016. It was created by the Spatial Sciences Group of Agriculture Victoria Research Division. The dataset is an ESRI feature class, with updates applied to land tenure and use from government and industry sources, while urban parcels from previous versions have been masked out.

Use Cases

• Analyzing land management practices based on recorded land tenure types such as pastoral leases or nature conservation reserves.
• Mapping agricultural or built environment patterns based on the defined land cover components.
• Updating regional planning models using the cadastral parcel-level detail for the state of Victoria.
• Studying the relationship between land use purpose and physical land cover, as defined in the dataset's methodology.

Strengths

• Covers the entire landmass of the state of Victoria.
• Separately describes three distinct components: land tenure, land use, and land cover.
• Provides data at the cadastral parcel level, a detailed spatial scale.
• Update sources for land tenure and use are recorded in the attribute table.

Limitations

• The update process for land tenure and use in 2016 is described as not exhaustive.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Sciences Group, Agriculture Victoria Research Division, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport, and Resources.

Collection Method

Created using a methodology described in Morse-McNabb et al. (2015), with 2014 land use data as a base and updates from government and industry sources.

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 02:46:27.435791; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of Victoria, Australia.